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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8423

19 March 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture/wto
Franz Fischler acknowledges it will be difficult to agree on trade liberalisation measures before 31 March deadline - He says 75 members of WTO oppose Harbinson's document

Brussels, 18/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - At the Agriculture Council on Monday, European Commissioner Franz Fischler reported back on the meagre progress made in recent WTO negotiations on liberalising agriculture, suggesting there was little hope of meeting the 31 March deadline (set at Doha) for reaching agreement on figures and measures to cut export support and tariff protection but saying that negotiations should continue over the figures and all efforts made for the next WTO summit in...

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